Doo, doo, doo, looking out my back door

Looking out my back door, I see:

• 3 occupied houses
• 8 empty property slabs
• 1 abandoned, empty house
• 1 house under construction
  
• 5 FEMA trailers
• 1 abandoned car, and
• 1 empty lot

The empty lot is right in back of our house, and it has become a small swamp after all these rains. "Swamp" meaning about 3 inches of standing water with nowhere to go except into the southwest corner of our backyard.


The view hasn't changed much in the past 6 months we've been in this house, other than the house under construction.
This is what it means to live in Katrina-land. Everywhere you go is a constant reminder of the destruction and loss.
This is not a healthy way to live, or to raise children.